The Metaphysics of Adversity

Hindu (ૐ) depiction of Vishnu (विष्णु) with
Lakshmi Narayan (लक्ष्मी-नारायण) on Garuda (गरुड)

The Metaphysics of Adversity |
Friday – May 29, 2026

Hardship and adversity, these staples, if you will in the true fashion of mechanism, of life are impossible to escape, for they serve a very important purpose, namely to foster strength and a sense of urgency; they reminds us of the seeming futility in life and of how important the things that actually matter are. You may say that crime, read "The Metaphysics of Crime", functions in a similar manner: crime reminds us of the importance of keeping the cosmological equilibrium; of course, this is something that most people have forgotten today.

    The Metaphysics of Adversity is real and ties into destruction—or the need for sacred and holy destruction to reign across the land, for a certain period that is—for destruction in a more personalized, as opposed to a more generalized, manner is often necessary in the course of a life; really very few men can live without adversity, but this is also not to suggest that there is meaning in adversity and hardship in and of themselves, because meaning is something human, and everything that is, or at any rate can be said to be, human requires context, and in this case one must understand the overall metaphysical context if one is to understand why adversity happens to us, and yes this applies in the context, the more narrow field, of seeking to understand divine providence, because it is the case that adversity is a part of the plan. I should also add that there is no determinism in adversity: adversity is never quite deterministic, and there are surely circumstances that may evoke a sense of uncertainty in the face of adversity, really in a way that can become so provoking that you question everything in its entirety, and really, I must add, this sense of a kind of empty and vapid adversity is the biggest reason why moderns confuse open and "free" inquiry with some kind of intellectualism. So, adversity is not linear and deterministic, but for the most part it is still true that people will face adversity for good reasons, and when a man finds himself unable to understand why he is currently facing adversity, all I can offer is this: in the future the reason for your current, then past, pain will become clearer, because adversity and pain are always very closely linked, although they are two separate things, two separate metaphysical phenomena. Really, to go of on a tangent: the difference between pain and adversity can be understood in a similar, not equivalent, way to how substance relates to essence, and really I feel completed to rephrase this entire sentence, because just like substances proceeds from essence, pain must proceed from adversity, but what I am trying to explain is that there indeed are such things as pains without reason or, if you will, pain that could have been avoided, and this is really where you will evil; evil lurks in the shadows of good intentions.

    I am by no means advocating that pain is good or that pain serves the sacred and the metaphysical, but I am making and I will continue to make, the argument that pain is something that must be bypassed in order to achieve real things; really in order for the supra-individual order to become apparent, one must be able to rise above the corporeal domain, again this is not a real domain in the proper sense of "domain", really in the proper metaphysical sense of "domain". Another point I should make in this connection has to do with the temptation of mechanism: surely would not life become better if one was able to "construct away" all adversary, read "Why Not Utopia?", really if one was able to apply all the principles of pseudo(profane)-science to construct the better man, read "Eugenics"? I suppose that this would be true in a perfectly symmetrical and closed, a grounded, system, but this system would require something beyond manifestation, for it would require men to be completely solidified and predictable, really it would require the erasure of everything that cannot be calculated and squeezed into the laws of number. Of course, we do not live in such a world, and indeed that world of the infra-human modality is quite impossible anyways, read "Who or What is God?", unless of course you are under the influence of Satan, read as well "What are Demons?".

    But allow my to sideline all points made hitherto and instead provide an example: would the efficacy of purposefully making such a thing as a product of some kind, say toilet paper, toxic and, say, cancerous (toilet paper with carcinogenic parts in it) for the overall and overriding metaphysical purpose of balancing the scales of the celestial order, read "Is Might Right?", outweigh the confused and contradictory humanist notions of ethical means, not to be confused with skillful means; in other words: would it be quite righteous, even justifiable, to poison people and their health in order to expose the weak and the meek; read in this connection Eugenics and "weaker genes" vs. "stronger genes", because what this theory aims to expose is weaker genes or even a weaker genetic constitution, and this is generally referred to as "positive" eugenics as opposed to "negative" eugenics which is true according to the naturalists, or at any rate according to the confused opponents of naturalism? Well, the answer to this question is not, nor could it be, yes or no, because it does depend, and yes to a certain and even to a great extent one could quite successfully make the argument that the supposed downsides of poisoning people on purpose in order to expose their weaknesses, and negatively or inversely so their strengths, is something quite good and even necessary in the overall cosmological picture, if you will, and further one could assert that the people that would die and suffer in this adversity deserved to not only die but to suffer before they died, really these people deserved their own destruction. Besides those points, is it not the case that destruction is necessary in the course of justice; where would justice be without proper application of adversity, really without proper enforcement of divine right? Because it is all too easy to talk a great deal about humanism and its notions about rights and tolerance for everyone and everything under the Sun, but it is quite another thing to actually create order based in something true and therefore something real, read "Hierarchy", for order and subsequently, in the metaphysical order of things, justice requires qualification, proper qualification, without which there could be nothing but continual evaporation of the sacred and continual decline of the human spirit. Is there such a thing as qualified forgiveness or qualified tolerance? Ha! Hardly, and even if such a thing existed in the psychic sense it would be impossible for such a thing to ever manifest itself in the world, and therefore a world without adversity would quite literally require everyone to exist in a permanent state of confused potential, really it would require men to dissolve their mental body. Also, if men never faced adversity, this would not only make them into broilers, it would make the world unjust and rotten from the inside; indeed it would completely decompose the esoteric core in all revealed traditions.

Reginald Drax – May 29, 2026.